@henriettefroh Let’s turn our attention to the Department of Water and Sanitation and remind everyone of the role of the Section 79 Oversight Chairperson for Utilities. The chairperson’s responsibility is to lead the committee’s oversight of the relevant municipal utility services, scrutinise the performance of the responsible departments, examine reports, identify service-delivery failures and ensure that concerns are raised and addressed through the appropriate council processes. So, where is the Oversight Chairperson when questions are being raised about water and sanitation? Why is ActionSA not demanding accountability from their deployees?

@ME_Beaumont and @HermanMashaba, let me help you, since you clearly don't know how the City you govern works. I am the MMC of Health. My job was to sound the alarm on what looked like a diarrhoea outbreak, and I did. It was OUR Health Department, with the Tshwane District, that picked up the high numbers. Not your Mayor. Not your City Manager. Us. Now let's talk about who actually failed. Your Mayor is responsible for ROC and the water business unit. Your MMC of Corporate and Shared Services is responsible for Bronkhorstspruit. Your City Manager, the man you defended with everything, heads the administration. Where is he? On vacation, while children are falling ill. So answer this, what does Health have to do with your incompetent officials who could not procure chlorine for three weeks, and then kept quiet until we exposed the crisis? Was Health supposed to guess that your administration was feeding the public contaminated water? Were we supposed to procure the chlorine too? Must Health now run your water unit because your people can't? Health told residents not to drink the water. Your administration let them drink it. That is a violation of human rights, and you want to talk about hypocrisy? Spare us the deflection. #EFFInGovernment